Well, we just can't seem to get enough of working in the yard. Ralph and Stephen started working on the other portions of our brick wall in the backyard. Unfortunately I have no pictures of it - silly me! Will do that tomorrow. BUT it's starting to take shape, and in fact is nearly done - just needs to be filled in and then I can transplant my peonies and buy some ornamental grasses. I want to plant those alternately which I think will look pretty good. I will only have room for 3 peony plants and 2 grasses. Then Ralph will start working on the REST of the flower beds to the right of the existing cedar trees.
Thankfully the neighbour's maples are starting to leaf out and I think today's and the next few days' worth of warmer sunshiny weather will help them to pop out even more. I look forward to having a bit of a privacy blocker there again - lush and green all summer long and it also provides lots of shade in the mid- to late-afternoons. That helps quite a bit when it gets stinkin' hot around here.
There's just something really therapeutic about mucking around in the yard, digging in the compost, potting up plants, planting seeds, digging up stuff, gettin' your hands dirty - you know? I just LOVE it! If only I could have a proper vegetable garden! I'm still dreaming of building some raised beds so that I can grow proper pole beans, cucumbers, peas, potatoes and squashes. I splurged this year and bought a couple of currant bushes that are a cross between black currant and gooseberries! I know ... what am I thinking?! But THIS IS SO COOL! I just HAVE to try it!!!! I bought 2 and planted them on the side of the house and of course loaded up the flower beds with compost from our slowly-becoming-emptier compost bin behind the shed. Man, that bin is FULL! Or rather
was full. Thankfully it's about 1/2 full now and the City has started picking up garden compost every 2nd week on garbage days so we don't have to put ALL of our grass into the compost bin.
Anyhoo - life is good. NO WORK = HAPPINESS!!! I could get used to this. I shall try not, repeat NOT to think about work until Monday morning when the alarm goes off!
Annnnnd ... reLAX!!!
On another note, Tessie is not doing so well - she has what the vet believes to be a partially torn ACL, great. That means surgery. OR, with any luck with a reduced activity schedule, no jumping up or down and some "Recovery" (glucosamine product) she will heal up but two weeks since the vet's visit she is actually worse than better despite less activity. Poor little puppy, she is not going for walks or anything. Right now she's sleeping in her little bed at my feet. I miss taking her for a walk. She'll get better eventually. That Recovery product sure is expensive.
I also bought some for myself (human formulation, of course) and am waiting for the Cancer Agency pharmacy to get back to me if I can even take this stuff while on tamoxifen. They probably won't call me back until early next week.
Oh well! I will wait. I need
something for my joints - I feel bursitis settling in to my
right hip now too. Ah, the joys of aging, but more on that another time. I close with a pic of me poking my head through the hole in the board while stopped at Falkland the other day.
